Forty percent of adult Filipinos believed that their lives "got worse off in the past 12 months," latest survey results of the Social Weather Stations (SWS) showed.
Based on the survey conducted on Dec. 12 to 16, 2021, 40 percent of the respondents said "their quality-of-life was worse than twelve months before (losers)," 24 percent said "it got better (gainers)," while 36 percent said "it was the same (unchanged)" when compared to a year ago.
SWS said that the survey was done through face-to-face interviews. A total of 1,440 adults from Metro Manila, Balance Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao participated in the survey.
The resulting "net gainers" score is -16 (percentage of gainers minus percentage of losers)---classified by SWS as "mediocre."
"The December 2021 Net Gainer score is 28 points up from the extremely low -44 in September 2021, but still 34 points below the pre-pandemic level of the very high +18 in December 2019," the SWS said in a statement released on Sunday, March 6.
SWS noted that the grade “excellent” is applied to scores at +20 and above; “very high” to scores between +10 and +19; “high” to scores between +1 and +9; “fair” to scores between –9 and zero; “mediocre” to scores between –19 and –10; “low” to scores between –29 and –20; “very low” to scores between –39 and –30; “extremely low” to scores at –49 to –40; and “catastrophic” to scores –50 and below.
"Compared to September 2021, net gainers eased from catastrophic to mediocre in Metro Manila, up by 40 points from -51 to -11. It eased from extremely low to mediocre in Mindanao, up by 32 points from -47 to -15," the SWS said.
"It also eased from extremely low to mediocre in Balance Luzon, up by 30 points from -41 to -11. It eased from extremely low to very low in the Visayas, up by 15 points from -46 to -31," it added.
Meanwhile, SWS noted that net gainers "eased" for all education groups.
The net gainers score among non-elementary graduates "eased from extremely low to mediocre."
Among elementary graduates the net gainers score eased from catastrophic to mediocre, extremely low to mediocre among junior high school graduates, and low to fair among college graduates.